Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 171

In one of the "chap-book" stories (a _lubochnaya skazka_), a poor man "obtained a crust of bread and took it home to provide his wife and boy with a meal, but just as he was beginning to cut it, suddenly out from behind the stove jumped Kruchina,[238] snatched the crust from his hands, and fled back again behind the stove.

Who acts: poor man, man, 238 · What happens: obtain, take, provide, begin, cut, jump · To what, where: crust, wife, Kruchina, stove, hands

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, man, 238), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 obtained	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	10 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stories	det
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 book	punct
6	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 chap	punct
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	compound
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 book	punct
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 lubochnaya	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lubochnaya	det
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 lubochnaya	punct
14	lubochnaya	lubochnaya	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stories	appos
15	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	14 lubochnaya	flat:foreign
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 lubochnaya	punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 lubochnaya	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtained	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
23	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crust	det
25	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtained	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 bread	case
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crust	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obtained	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	home	home	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 provide	mark
33	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 took	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 provide	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 boy	cc
37	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wife	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 meal	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 meal	det
40	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 boy	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 beginning	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 beginning	cc
43	just	just	ADV	_	47 beginning	advmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 beginning	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 beginning	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 beginning	aux
47	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 obtained	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 cut	mark
49	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 beginning	xcomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 cut	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 out	punct
52	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	53 out	advmod
53	out	out	ADV	_	58 jumped	advmod
54	from	from	ADP	_	57 stove	case
55	behind	behind	ADP	_	57 stove	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 stove	det
57	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 jumped	obl
58	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obtained	conj
59	Kruchina	Kruchina	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 jumped	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 snatched	punct
61	[	[	PUNCT	_	62 238	punct
62	238	238	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	64 snatched	nsubj
63	]	]	PUNCT	_	62 238	punct
64	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 jumped	conj
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 crust	det
66	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 snatched	obj
67	from	from	ADP	_	69 hands	case
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 hands	nmod:poss
69	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 snatched	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 fled	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 fled	cc
72	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obtained	conj
73	back	back	ADV	_	72 fled	advmod
74	again	again	ADV	_	72 fled	advmod
75	behind	behind	ADP	_	77 stove	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 stove	det
77	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 fled	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain in a quote	past	a poor man	a crust of bread			in one of the book stories	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Theme
2	take in a quote	past	a poor man not said here	crust			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	provide in a quote	to-infinitive	a poor man not said here	man's wife and boy with a meal				vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wife=Theme
4	begin in a quote	past · progressive	man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cut in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	crust				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
6	jump in a quote	past	a poor man not said here	Kruchina	the stove		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kruchina=Theme from stove=Trajectory
7	snatch in a quote	past	238	the crust	man's hands			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crust=Theme from hand=Source
8	flee back in a quote	past	a poor man not said here		the stove	again		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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